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  You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) (Paperback) By (author) Jaron Lanier

  

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  Short Description for You Are Not a Gadget Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary, offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way technology is transforming lives for better and for worse.
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  • Publisher: Random House Inc
  • Published: 02 August 2011
  • Format: Paperback 223 pages
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  • Categories: Science: General Issues | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | Computing: General | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing | Internet Guides & Online Services
  • ISBN 13: 9780307389978 ISBN 10: 0307389979
  • Sales rank: 43,476

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• A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. Informed by Lanier's experience and expertise as a computer scientist, "You Are Not a Gadget" discusses the technical and cultural problems that have unwittingly risen from programming choices--such as the nature of user identity--that were "locked-in" at the birth of digital media and considers what a future based on current design philosophies will bring. With the proliferation of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 designs that elevate the "wisdom" of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and wisdom of individuals, his message has never been more urgent.